netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] cls_api.c: Fix dumping of non-existing actions' stats.

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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:20:42 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Ignacy Gawędzki 
	<ignacy.gawedzki@...en-communications.fr>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] cls_api.c: Fix dumping of non-existing actions' stats.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ignacy Gawędzki <ignacy.gawedzki@...en-communications.fr>
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 18:32:51 +0100
>
>> In tcf_exts_dump_stats(), ensure that exts->actions is not empty before
>> accessing the first element of that list and calling tcf_action_copy_stats()
>> on it.  This fixes some random segvs when adding filters of type "basic" with
>> no particular action.
>>
>> This also fixes the dumping of those "no-action" filters, which more often
>> than not made calls to tcf_action_copy_stats() fail and consequently netlink
>> attributes added by the caller to be removed by a call to nla_nest_cancel().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ignacy Gawędzki <ignacy.gawedzki@...en-communications.fr>
>
> Applied, thanks.

Dave, please queue this patch for -stable as well, if you haven't done yet.
It needs to backport back to 3.14.

Thanks!
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